Sorry for a very very late update. Have not given up on this story I promise.

Steve felt his muscles strain as he pushed the heavy weights up with his legs, "23, 24…25" Steve finished his set and let his body right itself on the machine, grabbing a towel to wipe away the thin layer of sweat forming on his skin. Steve sighed as he then reaching for his bottle of water began to reflect on the last few days, it had been discovered by the super soldier that Natasha had Sam on call and had him fly the quin jet out as soon as they decided to go up to the mountain without a word to him about it, the decision risked leaks in the team as well as the constant danger of Russian interference with an unauthorised air craft in their air space, alas to say he wasn't at all impressed with the order given by the secretive redhead. The mission hadn't felt like a complete loss when Skye had taken him aside to tell him that she thought Jemma and her might have a lead and that they'd need the base computers to do more research. So against Steve's better judgment they returned home after picking up two hydra prisoners and letting Alyona back to keep them updated to any changes near the mountain.

Steve heard the swish of the gym doors and turned his head to see Sam walk in with a report on one of the missions being undertaken by Vision on the south of Ukraine. Steve welcomed the distraction as he held out his arm for the offending report and quickly began to flick through.

"Update on everyone?"

Sam sighed and tinkered with a rowing machine. "Vision is on his way back, Natasha is currently looking over reported sightings of our stray doctor Banner, May won't tell me but I THINK she's just spying on the girls for Coulson but I wouldn't put it past her to be spying on us for Coulson as well-"

Steve felt himself frown at that as he glanced up at Sam while turning another page of the report.

"-Thor is still in Asguard as far as we know, Tony is currently holed up in Barbados as far as I can tell although I could not for the life of me figure out why, its assumed by the media to be a holiday but knowing Stark it's probably something else entirely." Sam shook his head as looked to the ceiling. "Skye has been buried away in her computers with Jemma over her shoulder…they're currently waiting for Wanda to get back from recon last I heard."

Steve looked up from the statistics on possible terrorist growth rates before him. "What do they want from Wanda?"

Sam just shrugged, "I don't know, girl's slumber party?"

Steve ignored the grinning man to stare at the doors trying to decide if he should pay the hacker and scientist a visit after his workout.

At the other side of the base –

"A base?"

"I don't know the details"

"Well who would know the details?"

"…I can't say"

Wanda looked uncomfortable as she turned her head away from Skye to look out one of the windows.

"Come on this is important!" Skye looked exasperated as she once again paced back to her chair to try and sit only to get back up and pace around Wanda who was doing her best to not make eye contact.

"You're not even telling me how you saw the symbol and why you need the information!" Wanda snapped back finally sick of the hacker's constant questioning.

"I told you its confi-" before Skye could finish her frustrated sentence Jemma cut in.

"I'm really sorry we can't tell you, but I promise it's really important and we wouldn't ask you if we didn't think it was crucial to our mission. Please Wanda, who can we talk to?" Jemma used her calm voice to try and portray her absolute urgency in needing this information.

Wanda looked unconvinced and unwilling to speak but as she saw the pleading look on the scientist's face and Skye's mouth begin to open surely with another tirade of arguments and questions at the ready Wanda felt her shoulders slouch. "There's only one person I know of that would have the information you're asking for and he won't want to talk, you won't get him to even if you find him."

Steve was leaning over an old black and white photo displayed on the screen in a fresh pair of clothes when the computer announced the admittance of agents Simmons and Agent Skye followed by the door sliding open. Nimble fingers quickly minimised the photo and brought up a map of the mountain compound that Jemma had made before the two agents stepped inside. "Miss Skye, Miss Simmons" The Captain nodded his head at them each as they made their way towards him.

"We have good news and bad news" Jemma said with a nervous smile. He felt himself flinch at her voice, he hadn't really seen her since they got back from Russia, much less talked. He had told both of them to come to him when they had something, he'd avoided the biochemist otherwise, trying his best to avoid the guilt he felt the woman stir within him as well as the dull ache in his gut.

"Go on" he said turning to them to give them his full attention after checking the room was void of listening ears.

"The good news is we have a lead, a destination to find somebody with the information we need. That X I found, I was right that it stood for something bigger. Wanda said it's in the design of something called project X that was undertaken years ago in a facility in Canada and it is surely linked to Buckey."

Steve nodded his head as Dr Simmon's accent punctuated the hopefulness of what they'd found out. "Sounds like we have our next mission, the bad news?" Before Jemma could answer Skye bouncing on her heels breathed in excitedly.

"Have you ever heard of the mutant known as the Wolverine?!"

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